Exact same thing with labors one and two. In both labors my water ruptured near term (both while bending over to pick something up, actually) and in both labors it took about 12 hours for contractions to kick in. The second birth went a lot faster, though, once contractions did pick up.

ETA: My mother had two births, and for what it's worth...both of hers started with membrane rupture, too.

My mom had 5 kids, water broke first in just her first labor. My sister and I have each given birth once and for both of us water broke to start labor. I don't know yet about this LO, but obviously I am really interested!

My mom had 5 kids, water broke first in just her first labor. My sister and I have each given birth once and for both of us water broke to start labor. I don't know yet about this LO, but obviously I am really interested!

I'm watching this thread because I'm curious too...water broke to start labor with DS (who was born 7 hours later)

Yes, although it looked a little different. With my first, my body had been getting ready, but other than BH contrax, there was nothing to speak of. Anyhow, I woke up to my water breaking.

With my second, I had what I thought were just BH contrax off and on during the day. I woke up in the middle of the night to a big strong contraction that was by no means BH and then my water broke and we were off to the races.

I had PROM with my 1st, 27.5 hours til the birth. The MW had stripped my membranes but it had been a couple of weeks since she'd done it. With my 2nd I had no exams of any kind and my water broke when she was crowning after less than 4 hours of total labor.

JUST SO YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY RARE to have PROM and especially rare to have it subsequently. If so, I would look at if you have history before or during pregnancy of vaginal infection, yeast infection, positive for group B strep, ect.

I'm definitely interested in this too. My water broke with my daughter and it took almost 5 hours for contractions to start. They started hard, every 4 minutes, about a minute long. Back labor, yuck. I'm really hoping, next time around, my water does not break to begin with. It made labor much harder and it did not go by any quicker. My water broke at 3:45 in the afternoon and she was born at 6:30 the next morning.

Mallory. Happily married to Joe since 6/25/05. Loving my adventure with my girls, Owyn Samantha, born 3/1/09. and Greta June, born 11/2/11

My waters broke hours before labor started. I ended up going to the hospital way too early and by the time my labor did start it wasn't going "fast enough" for my Dr. and I ended up being augmented with pitocin. I find this thread very interesting and I really hope my waters don't break so early this time around, but if they do I will be better prepared and armed with knowledge to avoid any sort of chemical augmentation.

It did with my first. It was 9 in the morning. I remember it clearly cause I thought I had wet the bed!... Seriously - it squirt! - squirt! lol I saw it shoot between my legs! lol And a lot of vernix followed with it! (thats how I finally figured out it wasn't me wetting the bed! hehe)... He was 10 and a half pounds....

Now...with my second (fresh from the oven)...It NEVER broke. Nope. I was in labour for HOURS. Stuck at 8cm alone for 5 of those hours. He was 12lbs 4oz...but the bloody bag of waters was just too tough for either of us! (eventually they broke them - perhaps if he could have decended, they would have eventually broke on their own)... talk about total opposites though! lol

My water broke in bed both times. The first I was asleep and woke up hot and as I went to sit up to push off the blankets my water broke. DS was born 2.5 hours later. With my second I was sitting up in bed playing sudoku and my water broke, DS was born 25 minutes later.